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Use the new standards-conformant preprocessor with `/Zc:preprocessor` https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/zc-pre...

Pascal strings might be the only string design worse than C strings. C Strings at least let you take a zero copy substring of the tail. Pascal strings require a copy for any substr…

The world won’t allow a dependence on a single geopolitically threatened entity in the long run, so either they defuse that risk themselves or risk a competitor filling that role. …

If you want to remain portable, write your code in the intersection of the big 3 - GCC, Clang and MSVC - and you’ll be good enough. Other implementations will either be weird enoug…

You can apply `#` to __VA_ARGS__, which won’t preserve the exact whitespace, but for many languages it’s good enough. biggest issue is you can’t have `#` in the text.

I wrote a similar article in the past: https://www.davidpriver.com/ctemplates.html I use this technique in my hobby projects as it has worked out the best for me of the options I’v…

Works with MSVC if you add /Zc:preprocessor (to get a standard compliant preprocessor instead of the legacy one).

The author relies on the compiler fitting the bitfield in unused padding bytes after “speed”, but that is implementation-defined behavior (almost everything about bitfields is impl…

C23 has _Float16

Summer reading programs are a band-aid on the problem that children shouldn’t have such a long summer break now that air conditioning is common. Spread the breaks out throughout th…

> We immediately began disclosure of this issue once we realized the potential impact. Unfortunately, no disclosure contacts were publicly available and we had to resort to emailin…

The “typeof on old compilers” section contains the code: (list)->payload = (item); /* just for type checking */\ That is not a no-op. That is overwriting the list head with your (i…

In D, you can just do a static foreach over a sequence to generate case labels: https://d.godbolt.org/z/PxWEW14K1

Don’t ignore food addiction, the app turns into a button you can press on your phone and in a bit you’ll have a dopamine hit from the food. You don’t have to get dressed or confron…

That’s not the point of hello world. It’s not to be as small a valid program as possible. It’s to be a small program that also exercises the needed functionality for using the tool…

Tabs are a control character and have no business being in a text file. Do you use ascii record separator characters too?

You’re switching to the build system of a different, pre 1.0 programming language that has frequent breaking changes?

This does actually look a lot better. Using the inspector to toggle it on and off, “pretty” does look a lot prettier.

Backslash is a valid path character (you can use / or \ as the path separator on windows) so if the backslash isn’t actually escaping anything it is left as-is.

let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

If you’re interested in this, I wrote a blogpost on a simple c hash table without deletion. https://www.davidpriver.com/c-hash-table.html

Without a non-linear activation function, chaining perceptrons together is equivalent to one large perceptron.

You can have methods with NamedTuple